Court Systems Interview
G.M.
University of Phoenix
AJS/504
June 22, 2015
William Miller
Court Systems Interview
When the United States Constitution was established, the founding fathers devised the core of the court system that is present in today’s society. The state and federal government each have a version of a Supreme Court which is typically led by a Chief Justice. The states level Supreme Court Justice governs the issues that pertains to the citizens within the respective state. These individuals will also take part in hearings or proceedings that impact of law of the state and hear constitutional cases with regards to the state. On the federal side, a Supreme Court Chief Justice will operates more on a national level, ruling over cases that such as states taking one another to court. The federal court has authority over anything to do with the United States Constitution and this paper will interview State Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on the current issue of same-sex marriage that was recently passed for the state of Alabama.
Chief Justice Roy Moore, of the State of Alabama’s Supreme Court, informed state probate judges not to issue any more marriage license to members of the same-sex than it already has which defied an order given by a federal judge. Moore is also known as the “Ten Commandments judge” (Berman, 2014) in which he defied a federal judge’s order to move the Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building. Recently, the state of Alabama went from a marriage equality state to one where most same-sex couples cannot get married (Terkel, 2014). This author sat down to interview State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and get his opinion on the features of the court system in which he practices.
The first question posed to Chief Justice Moore was “Who is Roy Moore?”. Moore answered saying that he is an Army veteran (military police company commander in Vietnam), a father, and a grandfather. A...